A slave is someone who

is forced to work
through violence or the
threat of it, they are
under the complete
control of their
‘owners’.. They are
treated as property and
sometimes bought and
sold. They have no
rights, no individual
freedom.
 GROWTH OF ABOLITION THE TRANS ATLANTIC
MOVEMENT, 18TH CENTURY. SLAVE TRADE
THE STONE AGE

1807 – BRITAIN DECLARES

SLAVE TRADE ILLEGAL

1808 – USA DECLARES The Portuguese started the

Hunter-gatherer societies
did not have enough food to
feed extra mouths, so did
not have slaves.
SLAVE TRADE ILLEGAL
1833 – SLAVERY DECLARED ILLEGAL
ACROSS THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
1861-65 – AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Atlantic slave trade, soon to be
joined by the Spanish.
Christopher Columbus’ conquest
of the Caribbean virtually wiped
out the native Indians. They were
to be replaced by slaves brought
from Africa.

ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS MEDIEVAL EUROPE

All Ancient civilisations
FORCEDGIRLS
SLAVE
GLADIATORS
LABOUR - whether in Europe, the Slavery often
Middle East, Asia or the took place in
Americas - made use of the name of
slavery.. religion –
Christians,
Western slavery goes Muslims and
back 10,000 years to Jews all took
Mesopatamia (present part.
day Iraq).
Europeans began to
THE ARAB
dominate the African
TRADE Slaves had
trade from the 16th
been transported
century onwards.
across the
Slave market in Yemen
A series of trading forts Sarahan region to showing African slaves,
were built along the the Middle East 13 century AD.
African coast to protect since Ancient
European traders times. Slaves were brought to the
interests. coastal areas where they
were sold to European slave
traders
 Tegbesu is shown here
entertaining some
European slave traders.

King Tegbesu of
Dahomy, made
around HK$3,000,000
from selling Africans
in about 1750.

Prisoners of Tribal Sale of

Wars. Slaves by
Potential
Tribal chiefs plotters
against
Kidnappin the
gs Tribal
Crimina Royal
ls chief
Wives
Captured slaves often had to trek hundreds of miles from the interior to the slave coast,
where the European slave ships awaited them. They were linked together in ‘coffles’,
iron, or shown here, wooden collars and clinking chains.
 PHYSICAL CHECKS
A dealer checks the condition of
newly arrived slaves for bad
teeth or grey hair.

BRANDING

Once bought the slave was

then branded with the owner’s
initials or mark.
Most brands were of silver
because wounds healed
faster than those made eith
iron.
Slaves on reaching
the coast and
awaitingthe arrival
of slave ships were
kept in slave
barracks called
‘barracoons’.
Shown below, are
other methods of
detaining slaves.
 CHEAP MANUFACTURED
GOODS

Trinkets – pots, pans

beads, shells, cloth

SLAVES WERE USED

ON PLANTATIONS,
GROWING SUGAR,
TOBACCO, COTTON.

U.S.A.
TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES ,
Mexico OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED

Caribbean
Islands
SLAVE TRADERS THEN
SOLD THE SLAVES TO
PLANTATION OWNERS

Brazil THE ‘MIDDLE PASSAGE’ –

THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC..